Hi guys.
I am new to Hibernate and just started playing around with it yesterday. Well I have to admit it is definitely one of the best persistence solution today.
I need some help here though.
The scenario is this:
One Registrant registers for one GolfSession. One GolfSession can be registered by many registrants. I am trying to retrieve the count of Registrants that have registered for each GolfSession.
Hibernate version: 
2.1
Mapping documents:
	Code:
<class name="Registrant" table="Registrant">
      <meta attribute="extends">BaseModel</meta>
      <meta attribute="class-description">
         Represents a single Registrant in the database
         @author Zach Lim (with help from Hibernate)
      </meta>
      <id name="id" type="long" unsaved-value="null">
         <generator class="identity"/>
      </id>
   <many-to-one name="golfSession" class="GolfSession" column="golfSession_id" />
   ......................
   ......................
   </class>
   <class name="GolfSession" table="GolfSession">
      <meta attribute="extends">BaseModel</meta>
      <meta attribute="class-description">
         Represents a single GolfSession in the database.
      </meta>
      <id name="id" type="int" unsaved-value="null">
         <generator class="identity"/>
      </id>
      <property name="dateString" type="string"/>
      <property name="description" type="string"/>
      <property name="slotsTotal" type="integer"/>
   </class>
Here's the Value object below
Code:
/**
 *  Description of the Class
 *
 * @author     zach
 * @created    April 7, 2005
 */
public class GolfSessionVO {
   private GolfSession golfSession;
   private Integer takenSlots;
   /**
    *  Constructor for the GolfSessionVO object
    *
    * @param  golfSession  Description of the Parameter
    * @param  booked       Description of the Parameter
    */
   public GolfSessionVO(GolfSession golfSession, Integer takenSlots) {
      this.golfSession = golfSession;
      this.takenSlots = takenSlots;
   }
}
My  CodeI am using Spring's HibernateDaoSupport
Code:
   /**
    *  Gets the golfSessionVO attribute of the RegistrantDAOHibernate object
    *
    * @return    The golfSessionVO value
    */
   public List getGolfSessionVO() {
      return getHibernateTemplate().find(
            "select GolfSessionVO(golf, count(registrant.id)) " +
            "from Registrant as registrant, Golf as golf group by golf.id"
            );
   }
Full stack trace of any exception that occurs:
 unexpected token: as ..........
I got a feeling my query is wrong. How do I do it such that I can get a List of GolfSessionVO encapsulating the GolfSession and the registration count.
I have been stuck for 1 day. Please help me guys.
Thanks.
Zach